Saturday, January 14, 2012

Not trying to make excuses here about the sparse posts lately, but not only have I been super busy working on never ending custom orders, but I and my family have had a really crumby week! We actual came home last Saturday after going out to eat and having a wonderful time to our house burglarized! The door was kicked in, rooms were trashed, stuff was stolen and the whole shebang! Never had it happen before, first time in my/our life...worst experience ever! Completely shakes you up, stresses you out and just makes you feel all together crappy! We are fine, like I said we weren't home when it happened, thankfully, so we got that to be thankful for! We actual did get everything back, because the guy was chased down in a high speed chase after also stealing a truck...he got away though. But everything is cleaned up now, door is fixed and just looking forward to when I can relax and di-stress! So you can also say with this happening my mojo has kinda flown out the window or was stolen by the burglar! So sorry for the down in the dumps post...I promise I will get back to my old self soon!! But anyways...just wanted to give everyone an update just in case you were wondering where in the heck have I been?! :)

Now onto happy stuff!

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I did actually manage to get my card done for "Sketch Saturday" this week! I needed to make a custom baby card for one of my lovely Etsy customers. She wanted a baby boy card for grandparents. And when I didn't think I had any creativity in me left after what happened...I sat down and it just started flowing and actually was therapeutic! Which is good because I have a bunch of Valentine cards I have to get done soon too!

Here is what I came up with using Jo's super fun sketch she made for us Saturday Girls this week!

Here is the sketch...

And this week we are sponsored by "Simon Says Stamp"! Which always gives away a super awesome prize to one lucky winner!!

A very generous $25 gift certificate will be awarded to our lucky challenge winner this week to spend on goodies in the SSS store!

The image I used for my card is a super cute stuffed baby donkey from "Meljen's Designs"! When Picking out the paper for my card, I got the idea that the little giraffe would look too cute with matching polka dots too! So I whipped out my opaque white pen and started dotting away! Guess I'm just in a dotty mood...cause this card is covered in them...lol!

I had to make some sentiments for this card as it was a custom order! I will definitely be finishing and adding more to complete this set of sentiments and make them available in my sentiment shop soon!

The inside with the matching sentiment...

CARD INGREDIENTS:

SIZE: 6 x 6STAMPS: Meljen's Designs-"Baby Donkey" and the sentiments are my own (can soon be found HERE)

20 comments:

My dashboard is telling me that you've not posted for two weeks, which is why I didn't stop by last week, so I'm really glad I double checked! I'm so sorry to hear about what happened while you were out last week, I'm glad you got your stuff back, although that's only half of it. Anyway, I really, really, really like this card. It has a lovely fresh fel to it, super colours and fabby colouring too. I hope this is a better week for you. xxx

Great project, thank you for joining us at CRAFT Challenge this week and good luck! Don't forget to check back with us again on Thursday for our new challenge and to check if you have won or made our Top3. Happy New Year!

WOW, excellent job on matching the little giraffe to the papers. I thought it was paper piecing when I first saw it! Love the layout and the image is perfect for a baby card! Thanks for joining us at Little Miss Muffet challenges.

Many thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week with our Spots and Stripes and good luck with the challenge. I'm sorry I'm not too well and this comment has been copied and pasted, but I wanted to make sure I visited every blog that entered.I some blogaversary candies on offer on my blog if your interested.Hugs Laurie x